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Title: The Reality Dysfunction Part I: Emergence by Peter F. Hamilton ISBN: 0-446-60515-8 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (180 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: *EPIC* in the true sense of the word...
Comment: I could blabber on for ages about how amazingly cool this book is... But the fact is all I can say is simply - READ IT! Ok, so it takes a while to get going. But when it does it's a real page-turner... And when the Reality Dysfunction itself occours, the story takes on a whole new dimension. Exotic technology, facinating characters, sentient starships, massive space-battles... If this were ever put on the big screen it would blow everything else away. It seemed a bit daunting at first taking on the whole 1200 pages of this (the European version), but I found myself realy getting into it after the first couple of hundred pages and ploughing through chapters after that. The only gripe I have with it is the sheer number of characters (each with thier own colourful histories) that are introduced. No wonder the sequal book, 'The Neutronium Alchemist' (which I have just started by the way and does not let up the pace) has a cast-listing of them all! The universe Hamilton has created is Epic in scope and TRD keeps hopping from planet to planet following the advance of the darkness... Probably the greatest creative act in the field of Sci-Fi since Babylon 5 blew away the cobwebs of Star Trek... Without a doubt the best book I've read this year.
Rating: 4
Summary: very good indeed...
Comment: Ok so I really bought The Reality Dysfunction completely based on the pressqoutes I read on the cover. Not usually a foolproof way to buy a book I admit, but I must say I'm glad I did this time and I also think they were all true!
I haven't read much scifi books yet, although I've read the Foundation series and some other Asimov robot novels, and Dune of course, but I'm not going to compare those books to this series, because it's just a very different sort of story. This is pure scifi pulp, with lots of violence, lots of sex and lots of starships and big robotic space marines blasting eachother to oblivion. I can see how some people won't like it, even hate it, but I couldn't put it down, because it may be pulp, but the story, although starting slowly really had me hooked halfway through the first book. The slow unveiling of a mysterious horror on a backwards jungle colony planet was really well done and soon the plot widens in scope to encompass a whole galaxy, filled with so many cool ideas in technology, characters, philosophy, plots and subplots that it's an amazing feat Hamilton manages to keept it all rolling along at a nice pace without losing the main plot. The minutely detailed descriptions of locations, people, cultures, technology, battles etc really paints an image that is so alive that it plays like a movie in your head. Some people complain that the main characters do not resolve the conflict themselves but instead there are higher powers at work, well I think this whole story is about higher powers and their effects on certain people and humanity as a whole, (as opposed to, say, Foundation where it's the other way around, the effects of very few people on the whole galaxy) so you cannot really hold that against it. Yes, there are parts that drag along a bit but the great action sequences more than make up for the dull bits.
Well, that's all I'm going to say. I still haven't finished it but I've really enjoyed it immensely so far.
Rating: 5
Summary: Starship Theatre, Pt.III
Comment: For hard core Sci-Fi, the "Night's Dawn" Trilogy has it ALL!!!He-Man heroes, classy heroines, nasty bad guys (not to Even forget THE DEAD RETURNING!!!) New Worlds and Old;Aliens, space battles, suspense, intergalactic conflict and politics; who could ask for MORE? Starships, living space habitats, Biotech, Neurotech, Cyborgs, Genetic Engineering; it's all here; just be prepared to read nothing else for the next couple of MONTHS, 'cause this one is IT!! I originally was hooked into this Epic in the Hardcover Sci-Fi Book Club Edition, buying "The Neutronium Alchemist" first (somehow, I missed "The Reality Disfunction" when first offered; then had to wait another two weeks for that delivery rather than read the story out of sequence. THEN was forced to go through several cowhides, chewing leather and making a complete nuisance of myself until "The Naked God" was finally published and released in Nov. '99. BOTTOM LINE: If you're going to dive into this Epic, Buy the complete Trilogy as a complete set and be prepared to be enthralled by a whole new universe of the caliber of Heinlein, Asimov, or Clarke (and to stay for awhile!!!)
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Title: The Neutronium Alchemist : Part I - Consolidation by Peter F. Hamilton ISBN: 0446605174 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Neutronium Alchemist : Conflict (Neutronium Alchemist, No 2) by Peter F. Hamilton ISBN: 0446605468 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Naked God Part 1 : Flight by Peter F. Hamilton ISBN: 0446608971 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Naked God, Part 2: Faith by Peter F. Hamilton ISBN: 0446605182 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Second Chance at Eden by Peter F. Hamilton ISBN: 0446606715 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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